2 Kings 17:27

New International Version

Then the king of Assyria gave this order: “Have one of the priests you took captive from Samaria go back to live there and teach the people what the god of the land requires.”

Cross References

1 Kings 12:31

Jeroboam built shrines on high places and appointed priests from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites.

1 Kings 13:2

By the word of the Lord he cried out against the altar: “Altar, altar! This is what the Lord says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who make offerings here, and human bones will be burned on you.’ ”

2 Kings 17:26

It was reported to the king of Assyria: “The people you deported and resettled in the towns of Samaria do not know what the god of that country requires. He has sent lions among them, which are killing them off, because the people do not know what he requires.”

2 Kings 17:28

So one of the priests who had been exiled from Samaria came to live in Bethel and taught them how to worship the Lord.

2 Chronicles 11:15

when he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat and calf idols he had made.

Ezra 7:25

And you, Ezra, in accordance with the wisdom of your God, which you possess, appoint magistrates and judges to administer justice to all the people of Trans-Euphrates—all who know the laws of your God. And you are to teach any who do not know them.

Judges 17:13

And Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will be good to me, since this Levite has become my priest.”